IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol (IP) address standard that will supplement and eventually replace IPv4, the protocol most Internet services use today.

An IP address is basically a postal address for each and every Internet-connected device. Without one, websites would not know where to send the information each time you perform a search or try to access a website. However, the world officially ran out of the 4.3 billion available IPv4 addresses in February 2011 .

Yet, hundreds of millions of people are still to come online, many of whom will do so in the next few years. IPv6 is what will allow them to do so, providing enough addresses ( 2128 to be exact) for everyone and all of their various devices.

A lack of Internet addresses would have caused many problems; your favourite web programmes would slow down, computers would find it more difficult to communicate with one another, and your privacy could be compromised because it will be hard to tell the difference between you and another computer user down the street.

To allow the Internet to continue to grow and spread across the world, implementing IPv6 is necessary.

According to industry estimates, WhatsApp has become bigger than Twitter in terms of monthly active users. The Wall Street Journal says that WhatsApp has more than 250 million monthly active users whereas Twitter has around 200 million monthly active users in December 2013. It is fast approaching the popular video-chat service Skype which has around 280 million monthly active users.

The figure is impressive for a company that launched its app just four years ago and that spends no money marketing itself. It makes WhatsApp one of the largest messaging platforms.

WhatsApp’s growth is of concern to many telecom carriers that make huge profits billing for text messages.

It stores
petabytes of satellite data and allows high-performance tools to analyze and interpret this
information that can then be visualized on a map, ranging from rainforest changes in the
Amazon to water resources in the Congo

Bitcoin is an experimental, decentralized digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world.

Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate, with no central authoritymanaging transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network.

The original Bitcoin software by Satoshi Nakamoto was released under the MIT license.

Bitcoin is one of the first implementations of a concept called crypto-currency which was first described in 1998 by Wei Dai on the cypherpunks mailing list.

Building upon the notion that money is any object, or any sort of record, accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context, Bitcoin is designed around the idea of using cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money, rather than relying on central authorities.

The Internet seems to have been slowed by one of the largest cyber attacks ever seen, especially in Europe. According to security experts, the attack targeted a European group that patrols the Web for spam.

The attacks targeted Spamhaus, a Geneva-based volunteer group that publishes spam blacklists which are used by networks to filter out unwanted email, and led to cyberspace congestion which may have affected the overall Internet.

The attacks began last week, according to Spamhaus, after it placed on its blacklist the Dutch-based Web hosting site Cyberbunker, which claimed it was unfairly labeled as a haven for cybercrime and spam.

While the origin of the attacks has not been identified, some experts pointed the finger at Cyberbunker, possibly in coordination with Eastern European cyber-criminals.

These attacks used tactics different than the "botnets" -- these came from so-called "open resolvers" which "are typically running on big servers with fat pipes."

According to security experts, "They are like bazookas and the events of the last week have shown the damage they can cause. What's troubling is that, compared with what is possible, this attack may prove to be relatively modest."

Google Glass may just prove to be one of the most exciting and anticipated products that eventually reaches the market in the near future.

Google Glass is likely to be a single-framed lens with a heads-up display and the ability to communicate with its user. It may be turn out to be the kind of innovative new product that's needed in the industry. It could also define and confirm the utility of wearable technology.

In technical terms, Google Glass is an augmented reality wearable computer with a head-mounted display (HMD). It takes a step further toward ubiquitous computing, which is the idea that the Internet and computers will be accessible anywhere at any time without having to use one's hands.

Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like format hands-free, can interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands, and uses Google's Android operating system. While the frames do not currently have lenses fitted to them, Google is considering partnering with sun-glass retailers such as Ray-Ban or Warby Parker, and may also open retail stores to allow customers to try on the device.

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The mission of the Computer History Museum is to preserve and present
for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age. As such,
the
Museum plays a unique role in the history of the
computing revolution and its worldwide impact on the human experience.

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995.

Java is the underlying technology that powers state-of-the-art programs including utilities, games, and business applications. Java runs on more than 850 million personal computers worldwide, and on billions of devices worldwide, including mobile and TV devices.

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